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Welcome Argus ReadersLast night I checked the IMDB page on 300, and found some interesting conversations in the 300 forum. One that was particularly intriguing was “to sum it up.. 300 = propaganda“, in which the poster argued that 300 is a movie designed to get young people to buy into war against Iran. Some other entertaining threads … “Freedom isnt Free” and “Pound for pound, who is tougher Spartans or American Marines?” (in which one poster argues that “A few in shape grandmas without any weapns against non weaponised spartans would not only TOWER over the spartans in height they would beat the crap out of them”)
You need an IMDB account (free) to read the forums. For those of you who don’t want to follow the links over, I’ve copied the most interesting stuff here (it’s truncated, edited, chopped up, etc.) :
On 300/propoganda –
This movie, 300, is based on a comic book. Yes? Correct. The book was made in 1998 years before 9/11. Finally, it was decided to be made into a film and was released a week ago. Even though I liked this film I have to say… this movie was aimed for people in their twenties. Why? Well, let’s see..
If we look closer at their marketing strategies what honorable internet site was used to promote the movie? MySpace. Now, we all know the average age of MySpace users right? Around the ages of 14-28, with outliers on both sides. Any people in marketing reading this? Would you agree that MySpace was chosen because it is a site where mostly teenagers are a part of? I believe so.
Marines made connection to 300? Oh my! What a bizarre connection?! … Nevertheless, the message was “freedom isn’t free!” from the noble queen. … I see a connection to the U.S.-Terror war… (I always loved wars on nouns, we used to have a war on drugs too, but who was the biggest dealer of all?) …
… This country is at war.. War, my friend. … After WWII, pretty much all wars that included direct conflict became extinct and the Cold War started. Look back to the films during that time period.. realize anything? Uhh, could it be that our movies included Russian stereotypes and marketed the “American Dream.” I wonder why? This is what you may call a psychological war, which then you combine with cultural & economical issues. Those three crucial ingredients then allow you to conquer the enemy from within.
http://en1.chinabroadcast.cn/2947/2007/03/12/198@204362.htm
What I am saying is that the movie 300 was based on stereotypes. Yes, it was created in 1998 and it was a comic book. Nevertheless, it was filmed and released in 2007. Now, we are currently in Iraq and partially in Afghanistan. U.S. soldiers are being wasted for nonsense reasons and fabricated lies. As if Iraq was the only evil in the world. Nobody cares about what is going on in Africa. The U.S. economy is going down the drain. The cost of living is getting much higher. Jobs are being outsourced. Immigration has gone haywire and nobody is bringing any reform to it. The education system is miserable. The justice system is clogged up with all kinds of lies and BS lawsuits. What are we doing? NOTHING. …
Maybe you and I both realize the problems, and in the end realize it is a movie. However, we should also realize that it really wasn’t wise to make this movie during these events that we are going through. … To conclude my post — here is a fun article that I enjoyed, and probably you won’t. adieu! … http://www.slate.com/id/2161450/fr/rss/
There are a number of responses to this post … it really is an entertaining thread, and every once in awhile something intelligent pops up.
There are a few other threads arguing that the movie is prep for an invasion of Iran. The one I referenced here is just the most thorough.
I haven’t seen the movie, but I will when it hits dvd.
The official 300 movie site.
update: more on the ‘propaganda theory’ …
The analogy between the war on terror and the death struggle of ancient Greece with Persia has not been lost on some high administration officials either, especially Vice President Dick Cheney. (A White House spokesman declined to comment about the film.) In the months after 9/11, a classics scholar named Victor Davis Hanson wrote a series of powerful pieces for the National Review Online, later collected and published as a book, “An Autumn of War.” Moved by Hanson’s evocative essays, Cheney invited Hanson to dine with him and talk about the wars the Greeks waged against the Asian hordes, in defense of justice and reason, two and a half millennia ago.
I heard it is a great movie based on a comic book, novel, and a historical battle. I don’t really care for Bush but I don’t think this is a propaganda film put out by the Bush Administration!
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